Celia Thaxter (Celia Laighton Thaxter) Quotes
The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
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One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
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Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.
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It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
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To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.
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Modern morality is all about perception.
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The energy Major Lazer presents on stage is guided by sound system sessions of years ago.
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According to Eshin's 'Essentials of Salvation,' the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
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They hear like ocean on a western beachThe surge and thunder of the Odyssey.
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I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'
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The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.
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Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.
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I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come to their house because I was a Jew.
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The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.
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Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.
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I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself.
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The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.
